RE: [PATCH v2] serial: uart: add hw flow control support configuration

From: Karicheri, Muralidharan
Date: Fri May 09 2014 - 11:30:59 EST


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karicheri, Muralidharan
>Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 3:05 PM
>To: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
>linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Cc: Karicheri, Muralidharan; Rob Herring; Pawel Moll; Mark Rutland; Ian Campbell; Kumar
>Gala; Randy Dunlap; Greg Kroah-Hartman; Jiri Slaby; Shilimkar, Santosh
>Subject: [PATCH v2] serial: uart: add hw flow control support configuration
>
>8250 uart driver currently supports only software assisted hw flow control. The software
>assisted hw flow control maintains a hw_stopped flag in the tty structure to stop and start
>transmission and use modem status interrupt for the event to drive the handshake signals.
>This is not needed if hw has flow control capabilities. This patch adds a DT attribute for
>enabling hw flow control for a uart port. Also skip stop and start if this flag is present in flag
>field of the port structure.
>
>Signed-off-by: Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@xxxxxx>
>
>CC: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
>CC: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx>
>CC: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
>CC: Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>CC: Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>CC: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
>CC: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx>
>---
> .../devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt | 1 +
> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 6 ++++--
> drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c | 4 ++++
> drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 12 +++++++++---
> 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>index 1928a3e..7705477 100644
>--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/of-serial.txt
>@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Optional properties:
> - auto-flow-control: one way to enable automatic flow control support. The
> driver is allowed to detect support for the capability even without this
> property.
>+- has-hw-flow-control: the hardware has flow control capability.
>
> Example:
>
>diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>index 0e1bf88..b69aff2 100644
>--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
>@@ -2338,9 +2338,11 @@ serial8250_do_set_termios(struct uart_port *port, struct
>ktermios *termios,
> * the trigger, or the MCR RTS bit is cleared. In the case where
> * the remote UART is not using CTS auto flow control, we must
> * have sufficient FIFO entries for the latency of the remote
>- * UART to respond. IOW, at least 32 bytes of FIFO.
>+ * UART to respond. IOW, at least 32 bytes of FIFO. Also enable
>+ * AFE if hw flow control is supported
> */
>- if (up->capabilities & UART_CAP_AFE && port->fifosize >= 32) {
>+ if ((up->capabilities & UART_CAP_AFE && (port->fifosize >= 32)) ||
>+ (port->flags & UPF_HARD_FLOW)) {
> up->mcr &= ~UART_MCR_AFE;
> if (termios->c_cflag & CRTSCTS)
> up->mcr |= UART_MCR_AFE;
>diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c index
>9924660..77ec6a1 100644
>--- a/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c
>+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c
>@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ static int of_platform_serial_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
> "auto-flow-control"))
> port8250.capabilities |= UART_CAP_AFE;
>
>+ if (of_property_read_bool(ofdev->dev.of_node,
>+ "has-hw-flow-control"))
>+ port8250.port.flags |= UPF_HARD_FLOW;
>+
> ret = serial8250_register_8250_port(&port8250);
> break;
> }
>diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
>index b68550d..851707a 100644
>--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
>+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
>@@ -174,8 +174,12 @@ static int uart_port_startup(struct tty_struct *tty, struct
>uart_state *state,
> if (tty->termios.c_cflag & CBAUD)
> uart_set_mctrl(uport, TIOCM_RTS | TIOCM_DTR);
> }
>-
>- if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port)) {
>+ /*
>+ * if hw support flow control without software intervention,
>+ * then skip the below check
>+ */
>+ if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port) &&
>+ !(uport->flags & UPF_HARD_FLOW)) {
> spin_lock_irq(&uport->lock);
> if (!(uport->ops->get_mctrl(uport) & TIOCM_CTS))
> tty->hw_stopped = 1;
>@@ -2772,7 +2776,9 @@ void uart_handle_cts_change(struct uart_port *uport, unsigned
>int status)
>
> uport->icount.cts++;
>
>- if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port)) {
>+ /* skip below code if the hw flow control is supported */
>+ if (tty_port_cts_enabled(port) &&
>+ !(uport->flags & UPF_HARD_FLOW)) {
> if (tty->hw_stopped) {
> if (status) {
> tty->hw_stopped = 0;
>--
>1.7.9.5

Any idea who is going to pick this patch for merge?

Murali
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